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[wellsuited]

[Her voice is uncharacteristically soft. Either she's a distance away from the Forge or, more likely, talking to herself.]

Eight hours at the casino. An hour for Kirsch -- no, better make it two hours. I want to be good. Four hours for sleeping. An hour's worth of personal time. Hmm...I just need forty minutes for that. That still leaves...no way.

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askdhbaskd AMAZING.

[yetsleeping]

...Elena? What are you doing!

surely she can't find fault with this perfect plan!

[wellsuited]

I'm helping people survive.

She's like, oi mindless brutality! gasp!

[yetsleeping]

But arenas are so brutal. And people should use their energy defending the humans, not fighting with each other.

get this.

[wellsuited]

But that's exactly why fighters need managers. We make sure they're taken care of.

So when you think of it that way, we are defending people, you know?

[shinra_finest]

[Fight for money, huh?]

Gotta tip my hat off to you. If I, you know, had any hat.

[Private]

Bit risky, never know what might show up. You keep things under your eye down there, I'll keep an eye up here, well, except on the occasional casino visits.

How does that fighting work though, any rules? Because I don't think the villagers are handing over any money in exchange for protection.

[wellsuited]

We could always request that a hat be included as part of the required uniform.

[Private]

At least we'll know who can do what. Who knows? This may be how the next wave of Shinra recruits comes about.

I haven't seen many rules. To be honest, I think people like it better when there are none. I don't get that.

[shinra_finest]

Nah-- These are all I need. [Obviously referring to the goggles.] Now, Tseng though... He is sort of gettin' old. Might need to find a way to start hidding the loss of hair. [That? Said totally on purpose to tease her.]

[Private]

[A small snort.] Turk recruits, not much sense in having ShinRa when there is no Gaia, or Mako, you know? Or a world to rebuild. [Or Sephiroth to kill. Again. ... And again.] Though we could use more people to gather info for us. Heard the library might have something interesting...

-- So the fights only end when the other is dead?

[wellsuited]

[Oh. Oh no he did not just say that. It takes her a second to respond to that one.]

Tseng is not get old. And his hair isn't thinning! It's full and thick and shiny and I bet it smells like--

[She's said too much.]

[Private]

Still...

[She'll never accept that ShinRa is over. She can't accept it.]

Dead or unconscious. Or if the other fighter surrenders, which doesn't always work anyway.

[onetoignite]

I don't think anyone's not going to believe you're persistent.

Not such a bad idea, though, I have to say.

[wellsuited]

What do you mean by that?

And no stealing! Though...considering what you tried to tell me about that, I'm not sure I'd even notice.

[onetoignite]

I mean it's pretty obvious to anyone who's spoken to you for more than two minutes.

Hey, it's a fair warning, all right? Those thieves are crafty, so it's best to keep all that to a minimum.

[wellsuited]

Oh. Thanks Denton.

[Clearly that was a compliment.]

Right. Keep my eyes open for something that was there all along. Something like that.

[voice]

[clawofsin]

[quiet for a moment; if you listen close you can almost hear him snickering]

[and then somehow he manages to sound entirely serious when he speaks]

Manager, huh? I'm listening.

[voice]

[wellsuited]

[Ah! A nibble! Pull the line, pull the line!]

Exactly! I take care of all that boring stuff, you get all the glory and most of the money!

[voice]

[clawofsin]

Heh, you sure know how to sell yourself, I can say that.

All right, I'm interested. But I ain't agreeing to shit until we hash this out in person, so you'd better know what you're doing. I don't work with amateurs.

[voice]

[wellsuited]

Neither do I. So I hope you're not wasting my time. I have less and less of it lately.

When and where?

Amused Mello is amused.

[heresygrenade]

Aren't you resourceful?

[wellsuited]

It's what I do best.